Andersen Defense Wins Battles, Loses War

In all ways except where it really counted, Arthur Andersen defense attorney Russell Rusty Hardin Jr. of Houston did what he set out to do in the firm`s obstruction of justice trial. Hardin`s strategy was simple. He needed to make jurors question the government`s assertion that a massive destruction of Enron-related documents at Andersen last fall was aimed at keeping information from the Securities and Exchange Commission. He also needed to raise doubt in the minds of jurors that David Duncan really didn

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